Meta will show you a notification when you violate the rules. | Image: Meta Meta is adding some new moderation features to Horizon Worlds, the company’s VR social platform, as part of version 91, according to a blog post published Friday. While the features are welcome upgrades, they also feel like relatively basic additions that
Read MoreFour hot-swappable batteries can keep the Displace running at all times. Our time at CES 2023 might be over, but it’s still worth highlighting some standouts at the show. One of those that’s gotten quite a bit of attention is from an upstart company called Displace. LG’s brand-new Signature OLED M eliminates every wire except
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is bringing support for Unicode 15. Support for Unicode 15 is available in the Android 13 QPR2 beta 2 update. The stable version of QPR2 is scheduled to come in March. Google is rolling out its Android 13 QPR2 beta 2 update today. Along with the update
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Read MoreOver the last few years we have brought you many stories about John Deere tractors, and how their repair has been locked down such that only manufacturer-authorised technicians can work on them. They’ve become a poster child in the battle for the right to repair, a symbol of the worst practices. Finally now we can
Read MoreApple’s war against small phones will continue into the foreseeable future, according to Ming-Chi Kuo. The noted Apple analyst reported recently that the company isn’t just delaying the 2024 version of its popular and diminutive iPhone SE, it’s cancelling it. This could mean Apple will never produce a phone smaller than 6.1 inches ever again.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on a combined Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip to replace Broadcom components by 2025; plans to replace Qualcomm parts this year have hit snags — Apple Inc.’s push to replace the chips inside its devices with homegrown components will include dropping a key Broadcom Inc. part in 2025 …
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to begin sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators on February 1, and starts rolling out new terms for all creators in the YouTube Partner Program — YouTube will begin sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators on February 1, the company revealed on Monday.
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: Meta rolls out AI ad-targeting tech it calls a Variance Reduction System in an effort to comply with its DOJ settlement and reduce discrimination in housing ads — Meta is acting on its vow to reduce ad discrimination through technology. The company is rolling out a Variance Reduction System …
Read MoreVentureBeat: Worlds, which builds “digital twins” of floor operations for industrial companies to help boost productivity, raised a $21.2M Series A led by Moneta Ventures — Worlds Enterprises, a company that builds digital twins of floor operations for industrial companies to let them become …
Read MorePhoto by Justin Casterline / Getty Images The Houston Texans, the NFL team reppin’ the city that’s arguably the oil and gas capital of the world, says it wants to go green. So of course the team is working with an oil and gas giant to try to tackle climate change. A subsidiary of Occidental
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is taking another shot at bringing new features to phones that haven’t gotten OS updates in years. It’s releasing something called the “Extension Software Developer Kit,” which should let developers use features like Android 13’s new photo picker in apps running on some versions of Android 11
Read MoreIllustration by Lille Allen / The Verge The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has reached out to Tesla with questions about a tweet by Elon Musk suggesting he would remove an important safeguard from the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. The news was first reported by the Associated Press. An NHTSA spokesperson confirmed that the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram users will soon have a revamped navigation bar on their home feed. Beginning next month, Instagram will remove the shopping tab from the main bar at the bottom of the screen, and the button to create a new post will move down. The Reels tab, which is
Read MoreThe NYZX Wizard Wireless Joy-pad, with Hall effect sensors. | Image: NYZX How many joy-cons have you gone through? I think I have like three with some degree of drift, and I am not that hard on my Switch. That’s why I’m pumped that NYXI has jumped on the bandwagon along with Gulikit and 8BitDo,
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: In February, Instagram plans to replace the Shop tab with a Reels button in the app’s bottom navigation bar and return the Compose button to the center — Instagram announced today it will simplify its in-app navigation after years of confusing changes designed to push various products like Instagram Shop and
Read MoreBusiness is good at Valve. Over the weekend, Steam reached the exciting milestone of 10 million concurrent in-game players—the highest number of players the distribution platform has ever seen at one time. SteamDB, a third-party Twitter bot that tracks and shares Steam statistics, marked the occasion on Saturday at 9 a.m. EST as gamers were
Read MoreSami Fathi / MacRumors: A shady iOS app selling IAP subs called “ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3” that is not affiliated with OpenAI has been a top paid app on the App Store for days — A sketchy app claiming to be the bot ChatGPT has soared up App Store charts, charging users a
Read More(Photo: John Burek/PCMag)We’ve been anticipating the arrival of super-fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs for ages now. As with previous advancements in the spec, going from Gen 4 to Gen 5 includes a doubling of bandwidth. That means going from roughly 7GB/s transfers all the way up to 14GB/s, which would be an astonishing leap. Since both
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Report: Apple VP of Services Peter Stern, who helped build Apple TV+’s business operations, is leaving, as Apple reorganizes its Services unit — One of Apple’s top services executives is departing the company. Peter Stern, Apple’s vice president of Services, is reportedly telling …
Read MoreGapless playback isn’t working correctly for some users in Apple Music on iPhone and iPad.
Read More[Duncan McIntyre] lives in the UK but participated in a secret Santa gift exchange for his Dutch friends’ Sinterklaas celebration. In traditional maker fashion, [Duncan] went overboard and created a miniature gym gift box, complete with flashing lights, music and a motorized lid. [Duncan] used [TanyaAkinora]’s 3D printed tiny gym to outfit the box with
Read MoreIn this digital world, dependency on professional tools is prevalent. But, what do you lose while relying on these tools? Productivity. Yes, the increased dependency on technical tools can restrict your creative mind in the organization. Your ability to brainstorm for a project, and work on your weak areas can get hampered by it. Further,
Read MoreReuters: Montreal-based payments company Nuvei enters a deal to acquire Atlanta-based rival Paya for ~$1.3B, a ~25% premium to Paya’s last close; Paya stock jumps 24%+ — Nuvei Corp (NVEI.TO) has agreed to buy Paya Holdings Inc (PAYA.O) in a deal valuing its smaller peer at $1.3 billion …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google released the public version of its Extension Software Developer Kit. Extension SDK allows older versions of Android to use new features. Extension SDK is mostly aimed at developers. Google has been working on a way to bring updates to core components of Android through the Play Store for
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